The New Yorker writer and CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin didn’t just expose himself during a Zoom work meeting — he was allegedly caught masturbating in the call with some of magazine’s biggest names and has now been suspended from the publication.
‘I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera … I thought I had muted the Zoom video,’ the 60-year-old married Harvard Law School grad said in a stunning admission to Vice, which broke news of the cringe-worthy incident Monday.
‘I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers.’
(The New York Post, October 19, 2020)
Reports are that his colleagues convened this Zoom meeting to discuss an “election simulation.” But, evidently, Toobin misread the memo as an erection stimulation. And, boy, was he up for that. Ewww.
Mind you, if they were discussing Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation, his excitement might have been understandable. After all, Toobin is famous for providing analysis on legal, not election, matters.
In fact, the reason I feel obliged to comment is that I had cause to publicly spar with him on one such matter, which ended with “CNN’s Toobin Changes His Tune To Sing Mine on Justice Scalia,” March 2, 2016. That’s why his public humiliation over this smacks as especially perverted.
Unsurprisingly, both the New Yorker and CNN summarily suspended him. But I don’t see how his colleagues can ever look him in the face again without either laughing or retching.
More to the point, though, I don’t see how Toobin can ever show his face on TV again. After all, any twitch in the box screen featuring just his head (above) will conjure up suspicions about what he might be doing with the one below.
Pervert!
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